JR24
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I'll admit, I did an impulse buy today almost never do.
I was in the big city (Wausau, WI) and noticed that the Gander Mountain had rebranded to Gander Outdoors, figured "what the heck" and wandered in.
Amazing upgrade, place looked nice, the service seemed far more friendly and the gun prices were reasonable, and even BETTER than some of the LGS in the area. Old Gander Mt. Was almost always at least $100 over.
So I'm looking around and they happened to have a Sig P365, which are made of unobtainuim locally, or had been. (They had like 7 left if you're in the area)
On a whim I picked one up for $499. Figuring it might replace my Glock 26 for warm weather carry or my LCR for big pocket/workout (belly band) carry. Worst case I can probably offload it with little or no loss.
Wandered to the range and ran 100 or so rounds through it next to my G26 Gen 4.
Good:
- xray sights were great, loved the green circle.
- trigger was excellent, much better than a different p365 I was able to handle at a SIG rep day.
- accuracy was good once I got used to the trigger, my last group of the day slow fire (pictured) was about 1.5" ish with 10 rounds at 7 yards.
- shootable: very little snap IMO, rapid fire strings were easy to keep on target and splits were on par with my Glock 26.
- reliable, no bobbles though I did get a few brass to the face (gasp! Only Glock does that!
)
Bad
- too small for me to shoot as well as I'd like. Just too thin for my hands for "serious" drills and work. While very shootable and accurate I was able to run faster, better and more accurately with my little Glock with much less effort. Some is definately familiarity with the 26, but I mostly carry/shoot my 17 (and now 19X) so the 26 doesn't get a ton of range time.
- mag without the finger dongle was useless to me. The base plate is too small to get my pinky on, yet too large for me to curl under like the Glock 10 round mag, so the gun kinda slid around in my grip with that mag. Once through was enough to convince me to want to replace that baseplate ASAP.
Verdict
I'm not in love with it and it certainly won't get any belt time over my Glock 26. It would work well for cargo pocket carry and the belly band under athletic shorts, being lighter than the Glock and if I were to want a BUG, it would be a very good option over the Glock or LCR.
Bonus range time went with my 19X. Man, do I love shooting that thing.
I was in the big city (Wausau, WI) and noticed that the Gander Mountain had rebranded to Gander Outdoors, figured "what the heck" and wandered in.
Amazing upgrade, place looked nice, the service seemed far more friendly and the gun prices were reasonable, and even BETTER than some of the LGS in the area. Old Gander Mt. Was almost always at least $100 over.
So I'm looking around and they happened to have a Sig P365, which are made of unobtainuim locally, or had been. (They had like 7 left if you're in the area)
On a whim I picked one up for $499. Figuring it might replace my Glock 26 for warm weather carry or my LCR for big pocket/workout (belly band) carry. Worst case I can probably offload it with little or no loss.
Wandered to the range and ran 100 or so rounds through it next to my G26 Gen 4.
Good:
- xray sights were great, loved the green circle.
- trigger was excellent, much better than a different p365 I was able to handle at a SIG rep day.
- accuracy was good once I got used to the trigger, my last group of the day slow fire (pictured) was about 1.5" ish with 10 rounds at 7 yards.
- shootable: very little snap IMO, rapid fire strings were easy to keep on target and splits were on par with my Glock 26.
- reliable, no bobbles though I did get a few brass to the face (gasp! Only Glock does that!
)Bad
- too small for me to shoot as well as I'd like. Just too thin for my hands for "serious" drills and work. While very shootable and accurate I was able to run faster, better and more accurately with my little Glock with much less effort. Some is definately familiarity with the 26, but I mostly carry/shoot my 17 (and now 19X) so the 26 doesn't get a ton of range time.
- mag without the finger dongle was useless to me. The base plate is too small to get my pinky on, yet too large for me to curl under like the Glock 10 round mag, so the gun kinda slid around in my grip with that mag. Once through was enough to convince me to want to replace that baseplate ASAP.
Verdict
I'm not in love with it and it certainly won't get any belt time over my Glock 26. It would work well for cargo pocket carry and the belly band under athletic shorts, being lighter than the Glock and if I were to want a BUG, it would be a very good option over the Glock or LCR.
Bonus range time went with my 19X. Man, do I love shooting that thing.
